Hi everyone! Thank you all for staying with me this far!
I'll admit that I had a lot of fun making this chapter. Lots and lots of humor!

I also took that time to introduce another OC. She's my main OC that I keep for my own personal stories.
Two quick notes about Reena (second OC):
1 - she hosts the 5 tails inside of her.
2 - do note how she doesn't call Kakashi "sensei" when she speaks about him at one point ;)

That aside, back to our ShikaxOC story! Enjoy guys!


Sora was walking back to her house. It was very far from the center of the town. Actually, it was very close to the forest as her parents loved nature. When they died, she inherited the whole property. It was such a big empty place now….

On her way back, she saw on the ground something shiny. When she picked it up, she could see that it was a silver dog tag kind of necklace. On the tag, there was a moon engraved on one side and a hidden cloud symbol on the other.

Where have I seen this necklace before...? wondered Sora as she looked at it closely. She was sure that she has seen this necklace before; she just couldn't put a finger on it though. After a while, she tucked it away in her pouch, convinced that she would remember eventually. When she arrived at her house, she took out her key and tried to unlock the door to then realize that it wasn't even locked to start with.

Walking in her house and looking around, she mumbled to herself:

"Now where could I have possibly left my wallet this time?"

She started by researching her room first, and then moved on to her kitchen, to finally end up in her living room. It was nowhere to be found. As she was about to head for her washroom, she heard a voice coming from the entrance:

"Sora...? Are you home?"

"In the living room Reena!" the girl swiftly answered.

A couple of seconds later, a white hair girl with golden eyes was standing in the same room than she was. The girl had been one of the few close friends that Sora had managed to make in the academy. Unfortunately, faith would have it that the two girls did not end up in the same team. In fact, they both had the opportunity of feeling like the 'extra students' that were assigned as a fourth person in three man squads for team 7 and 10.

"Sorry if I'm bothering you, Sora, but the door was open, so I wanted make sure it wasn't a break in," Reena told her.

"Its fine, thanks for checking though," she answered thankfully.

When the black hair girl looked up, she saw that her friend was giving her a questioning look.

"I'm searching for my wallet", she answered the silent question. "Geez, how did I lose it so easily?"

She stood up, putting one hand on her hip while lightly biting the other hand's thumb. Her house was a real mess as she really never took the time to clean it. Reena was also looking around, now grinning at her friend's question.

"No needs to answer, I already know why" Sora told her, lifting her hand toward her.

"Do you want me to help you look?" offered Reena who was trying not to laugh at her friend's discouragement.

"That would be extremely helpful."

Both rolled up their sleeves and with that started the research in different parts of the house. When Sora finally thought that she had lost her wallet forever on top of maybe being late for the supper, Reena shouted from the living room:

"Got it!"

"Really...? Where did you find it?" she asked while running in the room.

"On this table filled with all these drawings", she said giving the wallet to her friend before adding, "really good drawings by the way".

"Thanks, now I can go finally eat!" Sora answered, ignoring her friend's mention of the drawings. She somehow felt uncomfortable talking about them since many of them were based on memories that she still had from her parents.

As if her answer was the cue, her stomach started to make gurgling noises. Reena giggled as her friend blushed slightly. They finally both walked out of the house.

"Don't you want to lock your door?" pointed out the white hair girl as they were walking away.

"Oh yeah!"

Sora ran back to the door, finding her key in her back pouch to lock the door.

"I almost forgot!" she said as she walked back toward her friend while scratching the back of her head embarrassed.

"Again..." her friend mumbled. "I swear, one day, someone will just come in your house..."

"Don't curse it! Anyway, what are you doing out here?" asked Sora curiously.

"I've been searching for that bastard Naruto," she answered now looking angry.

Sora let out a sigh as she looked up to the sky. It was very common for Naruto to get Reena and everyone else in their team mad. If he didn't make her mad, he would manage to make the others angry. It just seemed like sometimes, although Naruto was trying hard to become besties with Reena, he ended creating more fighting than anything else. Sora's quick theory on the subject was that it may be due to the fact that they were both jinchūriki. Thus, the tailed beasts in them brought more frustration in the friendship than there should have been. But that really was just a theory.

"What did he do this time?"

"He stole a little something from me which is very very very important to me..."

"Then maybe he's hiding in town now. That's where I'm going so why not walk all the way there together?"

"Sure. I really thought that he ran toward your house earlier but now he's probably on his way back to the training ground or something".

"You'll find him," she said in hope to encourage her.


"Hurry up, Shikamaru! We're going to be late!" shouted a brown hair boy.

"There's no way we're going to be late, sensei said in half an hour, Choji".

Choji was about Shikamaru's age. They've been friends for a long time and have been in the same team. He was a bit overweight, which was common for his clan. As long as no one mentioned it, there was no problem regarding this detail.

"Maybe he told you that, but he can be there early. If so, we can go eat early!" he said in a logical tone.

"Doubt it, he's gone to see Kurenei-sensei," Shikamaru mumbled as an answer.

As Choji was about to reply when a spiky yellow hair boy came out of nowhere.

"Hi guys!" he shouted in an energetic voice.

"Hi Naruto, what are you doing here?" asked Shikamaru, happy to change the conversation away from the useless debate they were having.

"I'm kind of running away from Reena…" Naruto answered as he scratched the back of his head in discomfort.

"What did you do...?"

"In order to prove to her that I had gotten better, I managed to steal a necklace from her back pouch when she wasn't looking," he announced proudly before his expression turned into a gloomier one.

"Then why aren't you giving it back? I'm sure she'll forgive you," commented Choji

"I don't think that's the problem..." Shikamaru pointed out to his friend.

"Exactly... I kind of lost it," explained Naruto, now really discouraged.

"Ouch" mumbled both guys as they knew that the girl could be quite scary when angry.

Naruto let out a desperate sigh before adding:

"Mind if I walk with you guys?"

"Sure, why not. We were actually heading for the barbecue restaurant," announced happily Choji.

"Your sensei is paying?" asked the blonde boy.

"Yeah, with the help of Sora... She lost a deal," said Shikamaru with a smirk.

"Again," added Choji before both of them laughed a bit.

"I wish my sensei would pay us a treat as often as yours..." mumbled Naruto.

They all three headed to the restaurant. They chatted about several things, like Naruto's new training, how long they hadn't had a "real" mission, etc. About 15 minutes later, they finally arrived to their destination.

"I'll have to leave you guys now," announced Naruto as he turned to walk away. Barely did he make a step that he froze on place. In front of him, there was Sora and Reena walking side by side chatting.

"Crap," mumbled a very panicked Naruto.

As Reena saw Naruto, everyone saw her face change from happiness to anger. It was a matter of seconds before she was up to him and pinning him to a wall before he could do anything to get away.

"I'm sorry! I'm really really really sorry!" Naruto shouted with panic as he saw the girl lifting her fist.

"This is your last chance Naruto! Where is it?!"

"I... d-don't k-know," he answered nervously.

"What do you mean you don't know?!"

"I kind of lost... it...?" he said in a small voice that was almost a whisper.

"You lost it?!" she yelled out in furry. "YOU LOST IT?!"

"I'm going to find it! I promise! Please let me go!"

"You're going to regret you were even born Naruto Uzumaki! This time Kakashi isn't there to help you!"

While the beating started, Sora walked up to Shikamaru and Choji.

"Somebody is going to have a hard time," she said to them.

"Yeah, and to say it's just for a necklace," Shikamaru said looking away from the horrible scene.

"A necklace?" the girl asked as she was also looking away from the beating.

"Yeah, Naruto told us he snatched it from her back pouch but then he lost it," told Choji, still somehow looking at the fight.

It suddenly hit her: that necklace she found on her way home was Reena's. She remembered her friend showing it to her, telling her that it was the only thing that she had left from her hometown and clan. She shoved her hand down her pocket to take out the object and ran toward her friend.

"Reena! Isn't this what you were looking for?" she asked loudly, waving it at her.

The white hair girl turned her head and released the boy when she saw her friend. Walking toward Sora, everyone could see how relieved she was to have found her precious treasure.

"Where did you find it?" she asked.

"On my way home... I'm really sorry, it took me a while before remembering it was yours," Sora answered her as she dropped the necklace in her friend's hands.

"Thank you so much! Come to think of it, visit me later on when you'll have the time. I might have something that will interest you".

"Sure. See you later!"

Reena walked away, heading toward her house.

"Is she gone?" asked Naruto, still in shock.

"Yeah, the way is clear," answered Choji.

Painfully getting up, he walked toward the group. He didn't look alright at all. Looking at Sora, he asked her:

"Why didn't you give it to her earlier? I could have avoided all this!"

"I didn't know what she was searching for it until he told me," she answered in an apologetic tone, pointing at Shikamaru.

"Girls, I'll never understand them. Making such a racket just for a necklace," the boy mumbled.

The other two boys shook their head in agreement.

"Hey! You do realize I'm still here, right?!" said Sora looking offended.

They all laughed at her reaction. It was then that Asuma and Ino finally arrived. Choji was already drooling at the idea that they were about to go eat.

"Wow, what happened to you?" Ino asked looking at Naruto.

"A very long story..." Sora answered for him.

"...which we'll answer once we'll be inside eating!" Choji completed her sentence.

"Well, I have to go meet Iruka who's probably waiting for me!" Naruto told them before he ran off waving back at them.

"Okay, let's go in before Choji eats someone," announced Asuma laughing.

"Alright!" yelled out Choji.


Aaaaaaaaaand that is it! I know there wasn't a lot of Shikamaru and Sora together in this chapter but this helped me introduce new important aspects of the story. That's why I tried to make it as funny as possible.

Share the love and review guys! I'll be waiting to see what you all thought about this while working on the next part (which I already have started - man I'm on fire! Hahaha)